Utterz, a service that lets you post multimedia to blogs and social networks from your mobile phone, has expanded its service to 17 new countries. The company has also introduced new online video and audio capture, and ‚Äúconversational threading‚Äù capabilities to help users engage and connect with friends, followers and social groups, both online and […]

Yahoo! today introduced a new live video conferencing service, Yahoo! Live. We haven’t seen an official announcement yet; we learned about this from ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick via Twitter. Kirkpatrick’s take: The service combines many of the best practices developed by early explorers of the medium, tiny startups that must be very worried tonight. Part BlogTV, […]

Howcast Media announced the launch of its new site today, a venue for watching and sharing “instructional how-to” videos. Howcast, founded by veterans of Google and YouTube, also announced a directors’ program for “emerging filmmakers” to pad out video offerings on the site. Howcast paints itself as a hybrid of “user-generated content with the quality […]

PodCamp Midwest is coming up next weekend, February 16, 2008, in the Kansas City metro suburb of Overland Park, Kansas. The PodCamp gatherings, organized by podcasting volunteers around the world, are new media community unconferences. Attendees/ participants set the agenda and self-organize sessions on topics of their choosing. Since the first PodCamp Boston in September […]

Real-time video chat site ooVoo today announced the release of the newest version of its real-time video chat service, ooVoo 1.5. ooVoo 1.5 offers new ways to create and share content including recording a video conversation for friends or colleagues or for posting online. The video recording services is designed so that you can record […]

VoIP pioneer Jeff Pulver, host of online tech show PulverTV, announced today the launch of PulverTV, which he is calling “The First 100% “Indie Internet TV” Channel.” The staff at PulverTV are creating 12-14 hours/week of original programming. In addition, they’ve enlisted several dozen producers of independently created Internet TV to include in the daily […]

Over at PBS’s MediaShift, Jennifer Woodard Maderazo offers her take on why she’s leaving print media behind for digital: In new media circles, one of the hottest topics of recent years has been the print-to-digital shift. People pundit about it, shout “print is dead” and wallow in the sadness sparked by nostalgia for a day […]

MTV announced today that on Super Tuesday it will have 23 members of its citizen journalist Street Team ’08 covering it: Our enterprising citizen journalists will be on the ground, at the polling stations, caucus sites and candidate rallies, bringing you up-to-the minute news as it happens. The candidates aren’t going to be stopping on […]

During the keynote at the National Association of Television Program Executives’ Conference, NBC-Universal President Jeff Zucker said that the network has notice a midday bump in online video viewers, and it wants a piece of the action. “We’re also seeing new forms of media consumption,” said Zucker, “like something our research department calls ‘video snacking’‚Äîa […]

Apple today announced that MacBook Air is now shipping. Apple also announced that the new Apple TV software update, which lets you rent high definition movies directly from your widescreen TV, is not quite finished. Apple now plans to make the free software download available in another week or two. The update to Apple TV […]